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For those of you with my LEGO DVD/download, you may have gotten to the very end of the document, to Chapter 73, the chapter on LEGO Sales By Country... One of the more interesting stories thre was about how LEGO was established in Finland in 1959. (...) (10 years ago, 25-Jan-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: For Sale... LEGO Chevrolet Truck/Wagon Collectors Guide...
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(...) As is always the case... folks at the last minute sent me a deluge of additional pictures to add to the guide.... hehehe... so now the guide is going from 50 pages to over 65 pages! :) Collectors Guide will go out tomorrow! Thanks all! :) Gary (...) (10 years ago, 24-Jan-14, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | LEGO Dowager Edith Kirk Christiansen turns 90 in May...
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The Grande Dame of LEGO, Dowager Lady Edith Kirk Christiansen, mother of Kjeld, widow of the late Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, and daughter-in-law of the late Ole Kirk Chistiansen... turns 90 years old on May 29, 2014. I was doing my due diligence in (...) (10 years ago, 22-Jan-14, to lugnet.general)
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The Unofficial LEGO Chevrolet Truck/Wagon Collectors Guide is now finally finished, after many months of research! :) For only $6.95 for the 50 page 70 photographs, 115 images guide (download only, no shipping, no Customs!)... (URL) Istok (10 years ago, 22-Jan-14, to lugnet.market.buy-sell-trade)
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| | Re: Exploring a new track radius
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(...) There are a few inherent issues with "flex track". Tying it into the current system, safety since metal rails can be sharp, Transporting the segments exc. Making just the ties was my initial idea too (apparently for other people as well) but (...) (10 years ago, 20-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: Exploring a new track radius
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In lugnet.trains, Ondrew Hartigan wrote: [snip details about alternate radius curved tracks] (...) I'm sure this has been discussed, but would it be better to make individual sleeper plates along with flexible rails that can be attached to the (...) (10 years ago, 20-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains)
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| | Re: New LEGO 1:43 Chevrolet Collectors Guide (1952-57)
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Finished the title page artwork for the LEGO Chevrolet 1:43 Collectors Guide with all the LEGO logos used at that time for the boxes and catalogs... (URL) Istok (10 years ago, 20-Jan-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | Exploring a new track radius
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Quite a few of us in the community have wanted a new track radius for a very very long time. When we were in the 9v era the argument against it given was the metal rails would be too expensive. Now that we are in the RC era and the track is plastic (...) (10 years ago, 19-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains)
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Greetings, Here is a fun little spatial linkage I made: https://www.youtube....JBhuBRb99c I doubt the linkage is unique but I don't know what it is called. If anybody knows, I'd be very interested in learning. Happy building, Tom (10 years ago, 17-Jan-14, to lugnet.technic, lugnet.announce.moc)
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| | Re: January 25th, 2014 SMART meeting
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Our next SMART meeting is coming up soon. Next weekend, on Saturday January 25th, we'll be meeting from 3-5pm in the Descartes room at Digipen. The mini-challenge is to build a robot that does something with cubes. You can use any cube you like, but (...) (10 years ago, 17-Jan-14, to lugnet.org.us.smart)
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I originally designed these streetlamps for "(URL) The Cube>": (2 URLs) I should probably try and see how the look with the modern plate hinges... Play well, Jacob (5 URLs) (10 years ago, 16-Jan-14, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.town, FTX)
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| | Re: A purist's tree
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(...) You got me there. :-) Even the brown might be considered too modern for some. ;-) Play well, Jacob (10 years ago, 16-Jan-14, to lugnet.build)
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| | New LEGO 1:43 Chevrolet Collectors Guide (1952-57)
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Well besides expanding my Unofficial LEGO Sets/Parts Collectors Guide on DVD from 1949-90.... to 1949-2000.... I'm also working on a 1952-57 LEGO Chevrolet 1:43 Trucks and Wagons Guide... which deals with all the large trucks that were NOT part of (...) (10 years ago, 16-Jan-14, to lugnet.general)
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| | Re: Cactus Brick Display at Tucson Toy Train Meet and Show
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(...) DAVE, if you were at Brickfete Montreal, you could have worked on a show this past November! we missed you. so all you got is pictures. See you in July! (10 years ago, 15-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.az, FTX)
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| | Re: A purist's tree
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(...) Nice, but I can't help wondering….. how the "purists" would feel about the color lime green! (URL) JOHN (10 years ago, 15-Jan-14, to lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: A Christmas portrait
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I've tried to improve my mosaic of Lea a bit: (URL) I'm not quite happy with the nose, but are there other details I should work on too? Play well, Jacob (5 URLs) (10 years ago, 15-Jan-14, to lugnet.build.mosaic, FTX)
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| | Re: Cactus Brick Display at Tucson Toy Train Meet and Show
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(...) And it's appreciated! Love the pics! I'm getting 'show withdraw' 'cause I haven't done a show since BrickFete last July so I'm kinda really missing hanging out amongst fantastic builds! Thanks for satiating my need for beautiful displays! Take (...) (10 years ago, 13-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.az, FTX)
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| | Re: Cactus Brick Display at Tucson Toy Train Meet and Show
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(...) And it's appreciated! Love the pics! I'm getting 'show withdraw' 'cause I haven't done a show since BrickFete last July so I'm kinda really missing hanging out amongst fantastic builds! Thanks for satiating my need for beautiful displays! Take (...) (10 years ago, 13-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains, lugnet.loc.us.az, FTX)
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| | A purist's tree
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I built a simple tree just from 2×2 and 2×4 bricks a few days ago: (URL) (follow the link to see a bigger picture) Play well, Jacob (5 URLs) (10 years ago, 13-Jan-14, to lugnet.announce.moc, lugnet.build, FTX)
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| | Re: Cactus Brick Display at Tucson Toy Train Meet and Show
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(...) We filled them about a quarter of the way with concrete. We have been using them for about two years with no problems so far. (10 years ago, 13-Jan-14, to lugnet.trains)
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